By Neenah Payne
Stephen Friend has a BS accounting degree from Notre Dame University. Friend is a married father of two sons. He is an opinion writer, author, and former state and federal law enforcement officer with over a decade of experience.
In Georgia, Friend worked as a patrolman and narcotics agent before joining the FBI in 2014. In Nebraska, he investigated violent crimes and major offenses on Indian Reservations for 7 years and was part of the FBI Omaha SWAT team. In Florida, Friend investigated child exploitation and human trafficking before being reassigned to domestic terrorism.
Friend became an FBI whistleblower in 2022 after making protected disclosures to Congress about the FBI’s investigations of J6 protestors He is a Senior Fellow for the Center for Renewing America and author of True Blue: My Journey from Beat Cop to Suspended FBI Whistleblower.
The FBI is Not Your Friend (ft. Steve Friend) - video 8/14/23
In Today's episode of "Moment of Truth," Saurabh and Nick sit down with FBI Whistleblower Steve Friend, Fellow on Domestic Intelligence and Security Services at the Center for Renewing America, author of "True Blue," and FBI Special Agent turned whistleblower, to unveil the FBI's questionable investigations of capitol protestors, how these tactics are not new and date back to the FBI's origins, and what must be done to fix the FBI.
True Blue: My Journey from Beat Cop to Suspended FBI Whistleblower
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As seen on Huckabee. A suspended special agent explains his decision to turn whistleblower and expose FBI politicization and abuse against conservative America.
Stephen Friend had his dream job as an FBI special agent. After nearly a decade of combating violent crime, human trafficking, and child predators, he was reassigned to the FBI’s unprecedented investigation of the political unrest at the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021. Friend soon uncovered efforts by the FBI and Department of Justice to manipulate statistics and exaggerate the nationwide threat of domestic terrorism. Friend spotlighted how the politicized FBI was cooking the books to support an ongoing narrative from the Joe Biden administration to label Donald Trump voters as violent extremists.
Friend witnessed overzealous practices to harass conservative Americans and realized the FBI was turning its investigative processes into a punishment. When the married father of two made his bombshell allegations in a whistleblower disclosure, leaders within the FBI exposed themselves as partisan, ambitious players who insisted that January 6th protestors killed police officers and attempted to seize American democracy. Hell-bent on suppressing Friend from exposing the truth, FBI officials seized his gun and badge and suspended him from working as a special agent.
In this memoir, Friend reflects on the lessons and life experiences that led him to ultimately risk his career to uphold his FBI special agent oath to protect and defend the United States Constitution against all enemies—both foreign and domestic.
How One FBI Agent Lived Up to His Oath–And Told the Truth (video) 4/12/24
Author of “True Blue,” former FBI agent Steven Friend tells Lee Smith he knew something was wrong with the Bureau after he was lied to about the Gov. Gretchen Whitmer kidnapping case. So, can the FBI be fixed or is it game over for the world’s most famous law enforcement agency?
How FBI Falsifies Domestic Terrorism
A former FBI agent testified before Congress Thursday saying the FBI manipulated data to make domestic terrorism linked to Jan. 6 seem like a nationwide phenomenon instead of an isolated incident. The revelation came as part of a hearing held by the House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government where FBI whistleblowers testified….about abuse and politicization of the FBI. They also testified about backlash they received, even losing their jobs as retaliation for refusing to toe the narrative established by FBI leadership.
Steve Friend, a former FBI special agent who served five years on an FBI SWAT team and five years before that in local law enforcement in Georgia, made the claim about his former agency artificially inflating domestic terrorism data. “Typically you would investigate Jan. 6 as one case with lots of subjects, but instead the decision was made to open up a separate case for every single individual there… And instead of, on paper, investigating them from the Washington field office, spreading and disseminating those to the field offices around the country, and if the individual lived in that area.”
“In effect…It made it look like there was domestic terrorism cases and activities that were going on around the 56 field offices when…the cases were really all from Washington, D.C., and Washington had a task force that was responsible for calling the shots in all those cases.”
Friend said this is part of a trend for the federal law enforcement agency, adding that the FBI’s National Security Branch “has refocused counterterrorism from legitimate foreign actors to political opponents within our borders.” The FBI had come under heavy fire for politicization on behalf of democratic interests in recent years. More evidence has emerged that the FBI may have played more of a role in inciting the events of Jan. 6 than previously thought. A Government Accountability Office report released in February found the FBI and Capitol Police were aware of threats ahead of Jan. 6 but did not do enough about it.
The FBI has also been exposed for working with social media companies to censor Americans online, most notably by urging social media companies to shut down the Hunter Biden laptop story just before the 2020 election.
See the article at American Press.
More Information
Rep. Clay Higgins Reveals FBI Role As J6 Provocateurs
How The FBI and CIA Operate as “states Within a State”
A Supreme Court Win Is in the Cards for Jan. 6 Defendants, Lawyers Predict
The Fall of the FBI: How a Once Great Agency Became a Threat to Democracy
Neenah Payne writes for Activist Post
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